Welcome to fourcès

A picturesque fortified " round " village with its half-timbered houses forming a circle around the tree-shaded central green.

The village which has a Renaissance chateau, nestles in a loop of the river Auzoue.
Calm and serene, its renowned local gastronomy and the warm Gascon welcome make it an ideal place to stay.

The medieval architecture : the half-timbered houses (oak beams and wattle and daub) and the arcades. The round shaded green at the heart of the village, a pleasure to stroll under the trees or to play pétanque (typical regional bowls game). The ancient Clock Tower (the old gateway to the village), a listed work leading to the rampart walk. The Stone Bridge across the river Auzoue with its two ogival arches. The Chateau, a beautiful XV° century construction with its defensive architecture, illuminated by huge Renaissance windows (today an Hôtel***Restaurant du Château).

Walk in Fourcés is a true pleasure. You can decorate this strolls while borrowing from the reception of the hotel of the castle (very modest hiring) a bilingual personal audioguide (French, English). The trott-discovery will then be guided.

• Way of Western circle

or strolls along the channel (of share and the other of the bridge) it carries out you until the arboretum then joined the castle of Fourcés and the round place.

• Way of the Eastern circle

Enter by the lane face the grocer, cross charming the small place of the Angles, then turn right towards the carpark of the village hall. Do not miss the pretty mill (private property) on the Auzoue river, visible on the right, from left bank or after having crossed the footbridge.

• Way of the Northern circle

Pathe shaded skirting the carpark of the village hall and leading, extra muros, towards the Tower of the Clock, the arboretum shrubby and the western covered way, along the channel.

• Way of Southern circle

Since the grocer, you pass in front of the castle and continue until the arboretum " The tops jets". You join the village by the western covered way and the channel.

This charming small place locked up in a setting of greenery and old houses is a tasted haven of peace of some residents, birds and turtle-doves, but also of the walkers and sometimes of the amateurs of game of bowls.

The majority of the houses were built or altered with the XVIIIth, but several buildings are certainly quite former. Notice the stone lintels of the doors and windows where are engraved, sometimes, the name of the owner and the date of construction.

Admire also this beautiful equipment of stones cut like this medieval latrine…

Old western door of the city, it dates from the Middle Ages. This door is in a square tower, provided a archère in pattée cross and a passage of barrel vault broken. It comprised neither harrow, neither pole-axe nor drawbridge. It had two openings additional condemned today,  on the right which served the presbytery, the second on the left giving access to what was probably the primitive church of the village (today house of the dwelling), quite former to the current church built in XIInd or XIIIrd century. The bell of the tower which strikes the hours since many centuries comprises inscriptions engraved as a cross which confirms the presence of a place devoted to the worship.

By crossing this door they reach, by the old covered way, with the arboretum (shrubby) and with banks of the diversion canal which locks up the village in the west before joining the course of the Auzoue river downstream from the village thus saving the floods due to the risings .